Choices and challenges: A qualitative exploration of professional women's career patterns

Career Development Quarterly

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 225-236

  Whitmarsh, Lona ^a   Brown, Donalee ^a   Cooper, Jane ^a   Hawkins Rodgers, Yolanda ^a   Wentworth, Diane Keyser ^a  

^a FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34247509816     PISSN: 08894019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-0045.2007.tb00079.x     Document Type: Article

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